Again, Bonds and Clemens stand engorged head and pumped-up shoulders above the crowd when it comes to embracing this strategy, though it didn't exactly work for them.
"When I read the woman the review from Kirkus, she said, 'That will exactly work for my husband,' " and she bought the book, Ms. Jennings recalled.
As the Rasta and the bum pointed out, it hasn't exactly worked for me.
But the mild-mannered Conway losing patience and resorting to a tweetstorm to get the President of the United States to take some standard legal advice raises an interesting question: What, exactly, works for people inside and outside the White House who are trying to influence this President, a stubborn seventy-year-old who is regularly described to me by the people who know him best as "crazy"?
Well that didn't exactly work out for him, so the man has a new gig that's relevant to us here: he's explaining the digital TV transition to America for some Web site.
Aynaoui didn't exactly work with Bollettieri; he worked for Bollettieri, the famed guru with the bleached teeth, movie-star tan and mass enrollment.
Even though this kind of amateur therapy didn't exactly work (after that conversation, for instance, Madeleine had more, not less, trouble taking a dump if Leonard was within a mile), it affected Madeleine in a deep way.
Not that it exactly worked out for the Dodgers last season.
One of the many questions in the case of Raymond Davis — who shot two men dead in the streets of Lahore, Pakistan — was who, exactly, he worked for; he was, reportedly, some sort of contractor working for or with the C.I.A.
There's no sense of the elbow-in-rib, tongue-in-cheek aesthetic that so permeates the rest of American culture -- including kids' shows like the 'Rugrats.' " BUT that apparent lack of sardonic self-awareness in a culture defined by wiseguy knowingness may be exactly what works for SpongeBob.
I've described my work so many times to my sweet, tiny mom (she's just 4'11") but she can never remember exactly who I work for.
